The close that used to take weeks, now in hours.
We showed it live: payroll operated from inside Claude, from comp cycle analysis to bulk posting on payroll.
One hour showing payroll working inside Claude: comp cycle, bulk contract edits, and June profit-sharing posted to payroll, live, with no safety net. All five demos.
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~1h recording
5 live demos
Real product, live
Date
June 19, 2026
Format
Webinar with 5 live demos in Claude
Presented by
Tako's product and business team
Audience
People Ops and HR leaders, customers and guests
The webinar took a process every people team knows, the merit and promotion cycle, and showed it end to end being operated from inside an AI tool. No concept slides. Real spreadsheet, real payroll, real posting, with the typos that always show up and the AI catching every one.
The people who presented are part of the team that built and uses the MCP day to day. Payroll is the brain of the company's largest cost. The MCP is how we already work on that brain: talking, checking, and writing with safety.
An API moves a piece of data from one point to another. The orchestrator goes back and forth: it reads payroll, cross-checks it with your planning, and writes the change back into Tako. All from inside Claude, ChatGPT (Codex), or Cursor, with your own Tako login. You already use one of these tools. Now payroll lives inside it.
The story: a fictional company, Pulpo (octopus, in Spanish), a Tako customer, running the merit and promotion cycle. Each demo is a real piece of that process.
Claude built the comp cycle spreadsheet pulling name, department, manager, and salary straight from Tako, already in Pulpo's colors and font, with salary band validation built in and split by leadership. One manager can't see another's team. Nobody cut a report by hand.
The analysis that goes to the CEO: raise suggestions cross-checked with the salary policy and the budget. For that, Claude pulled the current payroll cost, CLT and PJ, from inside Tako, and showed where each department goes over or under. A deck that would take weeks came out in a few minutes.
22 people, 44 role and salary changes, from a single spreadsheet. Claude read it, matched it against Tako's data, found a duplicate name and asked before moving on, ran a test sample, and only then applied the batch. Everything went through the approval flow that already exists in the platform, logged under your name.
A Claude skill confirmed in Tako who had role and salary changed, generated each person's letter in the company's design (different text for merit and for promotion), and sent it by email and Slack, asking for your approval before sending.
The bulk posting of profit-sharing on June payroll. The spreadsheet carried R$138 million for someone who earns R$6 thousand. Claude stopped, flagged the typo, and asked what to do. It found an incomplete name, a swapped name, and skipped people already terminated. Payroll recalculated on the spot. The same goes for commission, health-plan co-payment, and any line item. In one demo, the posting came from a photo of a handwritten sheet.
Payroll is never exposed. Every write follows six steps:
You access the AI with the same Tako login. Without permission to edit, the AI doesn't edit either.
It reads Tako's data before proposing anything.
If it finds something off pattern, it stops and hands the decision back to you.
It runs one case before applying the whole batch.
Contract changes go through the same approval steps you already have.
Every edit is recorded under your name, with date and time.
Tako's structured data is what makes this trustworthy. The spreadsheet that arrives from the team always has an error. Tako is the source of truth that corrects it.
Claude (our recommendation, faster and with more features), ChatGPT via Codex, and Cursor. Use the desktop app, not the browser. The MCP is in beta and grows every week: today the focus is contract changes, employee records, and payroll postings. Hiring, offboarding, and transfers are on the way.
“We rolled out Tako recently and it was well worth it.”
“It's a very good payroll system, different from the others I've worked with. I've saved a lot of time at closing.”
“It looks like a dream. How accurate is it?”
More than R$2 billion in payroll already processed by Tako.
Yes, and that's exactly where it gets stronger. If your tool has an MCP, you connect the two. If not, you export the report. The gain is cross-referencing performance with the real payroll cost, which only Tako has.
Yes. Tako is responsible for sending eSocial events. A change made through the MCP follows the same path.
Under your name. You access the MCP with your Tako login, so every edit is named, with date and time.
Yes. Any payroll line item, from a spreadsheet or a report from another system. You can even schedule the posting.
In the desktop app. The MCP connects better there.
It does. Tako has small and mid-sized customers, not just large operations.
The full recording is right here. If you're already a customer, talk to the Agent Ops team to join the MCP beta. If you're not yet, book a demo and see the complete Tako.
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